Business as usual is dead. Increasingly, science fiction is becoming science fact. Exponential technologies are rapidly changing our lives and societies, every day, everywhere. We will need different skills, and we will need to get much better at driving change - or we will be driven by it. Most importantly, we should embrace technology but not become it. Anything that can be digitized or automated, will be - and anything that cannot be digitized or automated will become extremely valuable. Lastly, we must go beyond technology to define real human values in this new digital ecosystem.

A short film by Futurist Speaker Gerd Leonhard, produced in association with Accenture

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Business as usual is dead. Increasingly, science fiction is becoming science fact. Exponential technologies are rapidly changing our lives and societies, every day, everywhere. We will need different skills, and we will need to get much better at driving change - or we will be driven by it. Most importantly, we should embrace technology but not become it. Anything that can be digitized or automated, will be - and anything that cannot be digitized or automated will become extremely valuable. Lastly, we must go beyond technology to define real human values in this new digital ecosystem.

A short film by Futurist Speaker Gerd Leonhard, produced in association with Accenture

Executive Producer and narrator: Gerd Leonhard and TFAStudios.

Producer and Art Director: Jean-Francois Cardella

Script: James McCabe

After Effect: Sylvain Collet

Sound mixing: Jeremy Joly

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Gerd Leonhard Futurist, Author and Keynote Speaker

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